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Opinion · Jul 28, 2011
New York Times Reader Kills Dozens in Norway
Americans who jumped to conclusions about Hasan were right and New York Times reporters who jumped to conclusions about Breivik were wrong. True, in one lone entry on Breivik … Jewish. The only reason Timothy McVeigh has gone down in history as a right-wing Christian and Jared Loughner has not -- despite herculean efforts by much of the mainstream media
Alexander's Column · Jul 28, 2011
What Power to Tax and Spend?
farewell address to the nation, wrote, “The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of Government. But the Constitution … people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the constitution designates
Opinion · Jul 27, 2011
The Hate-GOP Machine
Salon.com said the Republican resistance to new taxes is “deadly and it’s wrong and it’s hostage-taking, and you shouldn’t negotiate with hostage-takers.” Matthews … side apart, and never mind that it’s their vision that is driving us right over a cliff. COPYRIGHT 2011 CREATORS.COM
Opinion · Jul 26, 2011
The Man Who Told the Truth -- About Himself
eloquence: “I can only say that segregation is wrong today, it was wrong yesterday. Segregation was never right. But it is one of the most lamentable frailties of mankind that … wrong is most grievous, his self-justification is most passionate, perhaps in the pitiful hope that the fervor of his self-defense will somehow prove him right. But this doesn
Opinion · Jul 26, 2011
Debt-Ceiling Chicken
thinking about what is best for the rest of the country, not just for right now but for the long haul. However the current debt-ceiling crisis turns … injure countries around the world. Anyone who wants to show that Moody’s is wrong should be prepared to show the actual benefits of the debt-ceiling, not its goals
Opinion · Jul 22, 2011
The Terminology of Taxation
tables or computer screens.) Every political movement has its rhetorical strengths and weaknesses. The right can wax poetic about liberty and freedom, the left about the nobility of the poor … angel gets its wings. Not all of those arguments are necessarily wrong. My point is that there’s no poetry to them. The sizzle doesn’t sell the steak. Barack
Opinion · Jul 20, 2011
Rick Perry’s Christianity Is Good for America
same bizarre and fetishistic anti-religious frenzy they always do when someone on the right mentions God. Asking God’s help and guidance constitutes abdication of personal responsibility according … state-sponsored event. There is nothing wrong with Perry’s “The Response.” In fact, it is profoundly right to request that God look kindly and benevolently on the United States
Opinion · Jul 19, 2011
U.S. Default Wouldn’t Be Carmageddon II
Ryan plan in a 40-57 vote. Now I think the Senate was wrong to reject the Ryan budget, but it tanked, so there’s nothing smart in proposing stiffer … have to wait. It turns out that White House economic guru Austan Goolsbee was right when he warned that it would be insane to tie deficit reduction to a vote
Opinion · Jul 18, 2011
Against Process
plot has great potential. There are real possibilities here. You work this thing just right, and you could have a ... screenplay!”) As with any other craft -- like restoring furniture … Amis, who should never go unmentioned when writers are discussed, once said that everything wrong about his post-war era could be summed up in one word: Workshop. Maybe that
Opinion · Jul 13, 2011
Failing Liberty 101
because it may turn into a militant chauvinism or a dangerous “my country, right or wrong” vision. The ignorance about our country is staggering. According to one survey, only … knew that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. Fewer than one-quarter of students knew that George Washington was the first president
Opinion · Jul 8, 2011
One Way to Make a Conservative
explained, “The school knows that each of you, or someone you know, has behaved wrongly. ... Now start writing.” Ying recalls, “I always believed my teachers. Now I was genuinely worried … ghetto, however, I could not count on my classmates to know right from wrong, nor could I count on the adults to ferret out fault and dispense punishment
Opinion · Jul 7, 2011
History Books Get Gay Makeover
school studies programs on the basis of their sexual preferences elevates what -- rightly or wrongly -- many see as a form of sexual perversion, to a civil right. The bill
Opinion · Jul 7, 2011
Racial Quotas, Speech Codes and the Thought Police
ignore the fact that any racial quota or preference violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Discriminating by race is racial discrimination, even if your intention is to help black … Charles Murray showed definitively in their 1994 book “The Bell Curve,” is simply factually wrong. The ordinary American knows this -- and knows also that that is not a rational basis
Opinion · Jul 7, 2011
Constitutional Conservatism Ready for Prime Time
leaves the states sovereign on all other matters. They also declared certain individual rights. Knowing that they were fallible human beings, the Framers also included an amendment process so that … complex supermajority could change it (and have, twenty-seven times). The Far Left wrongly suggests that constitutional conservatism is retrospective. Instead it recognizes that in less than two centuries constitutional
Opinion · Jul 7, 2011
U.S. and Europe Listing in the Same Boat
that America is part of what has gone wrong in our world, rather than a force to help make it right, has become all too common.” I have to hand … that America is part of what has gone wrong in our world, rather than a force to help make it right, has become all too common.” I have to hand
Opinion · Jul 5, 2011
Time’s Orwellian Story on U.S. Constitution Refuted!
sensible health care system, a globalized economy, and evolving sense of civil and political rights.” The story shows all sorts of poll questions that present a false choice, such … deceptive to suggest that not raising the ceiling automatically causes default, and it’s wrong to suggest it’s unconstitutional. The most disappointing part of the article mischaracterizes the Obamacare
Opinion · Jul 4, 2011
Of Great Empires and Little Minds
ministers were embarked on a disastrous course. Their colonial policy was not only wrong in principle but, perhaps worse in the eyes of a statesmen, sure to fail in practice … created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Those words would have
Opinion · Jul 2, 2011
War by Euphemism
their right names, the object of American policy in, around and in the general vicinity of Libya seems to consist of calling things not even by their wrong ones, which
Opinion · Jul 1, 2011
Corporate Jets and Tax Breaks
move this country toward a balanced budget. But the novice would be wrong. For starters, Obama’s most recent budget calls for adding $9.5 trillion in new debt over … general aviation industry, which is centered in Wichita, Kan., where they make private jets “right here in America” as Obama likes to say. The upshot: Obama says that Alcoa must
Alexander's Column · Jun 30, 2011
The Constitution: ‘Does It Still Matter?’
Rule of Law. George Washington: “The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution, which … people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates